Archaeological Museum of Mykonos
Grave stelae and funerary urns exhumed from a sacred island's ancient burial purge, alongside a rare relief pithos of the Trojan Horse.
This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Mykonos opens on Rheneia in 426 BC, when Athenian workers began digging up every grave on the sacred island of Delos across the strait and rowing the dead here in silence, driven by a warning from an oracle about what a god as pure as Apollo could tolerate near his birthplace. It follows that purification through the centuries of burials that piled up on Rheneia, and to the 1897 discovery that finally explained why this museum exists at all, built in 1902 to hold what came out of the ground. Walk the rooms and you're moving through the stelae, urns and votive vases that fear of offending a god once put underground.
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